Re: Transwarp speed upgrade kits-- bad .SHK's? followup

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

Rubywand wrote:
> Rubywand wrote,
> in response to my reply:
> > > Point your web browser to:
> > >
> > > http://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/apple2/apple16/Hypermedia/Hypercard/
> > >
> > > and download my TransWarp GS upgrade guide (TWGSupgrade.SHK or
> > > TWGSupgrade.BSQ). ....
> >
> >      The .BSQ accel upgrade files (TWGSupgrade.BSQ and ZipUpgrade.BSQ)
> > work fine. They can be downloaded and run through GSCIIPlus to obtain
> > good .SHK files which GSHK (GS-ShrinkIt) can unShrink to HyperCard
> > stacks.
> >
> >      The .SHK versions (TWGSupgrade.SHK and ZipUpgrade.SHK) appear to be
> > corrupted. They download okay but show up as "damaged" when an attempt
> > is made to unShrink them via GSHK. (A further check is that sizes do not
> > match the good .SHK files obtained from the .BSQ files.)
[Snip] 
>      It seems clear that, if you download TWGSupgrade.SHK (and,
> probably, ZipUpgrade.SHK) via an ftp connection, everything is fine. If
> you download the file via http, you may have problems. I'm using
> Netscape 4.0x and this is the first such problem encountered. If anyone
> has some ideas about an explanation, they will be interesting to hear.
> 
> Rubywand

Rubywand, thank you very much for your efforts in tracking down
this problem.  :)

I had no idea I was posting links that resulted in unpackable
files.  Thanks to this information, I am changing all subsequent
posted links to:

ftp://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/apple2/apple16/Hypermedia/Hypercard/

Thanks again!

:)

-Scott G.